I Comete: A Corsican Summer (2021) is the debut feature from actor and director Pascal Tagnati. With a feeling of life in a Corsican village Continue Reading
Sundance 2021: Poonpiriya's 'One for the Road' Explores Brotherhood
In all the connections made and broken in Thai director Baz Poonpiriya’s Wong Kar-Wai-produced buddy film/romantic drama One for the Road, none are as complicated, Continue Reading
Between the Grooves: Led Zeppelin – 'Houses of the Holy'
History is often not as judicious in granting sympathy to the album that follows a classic. As great as the Beatles’ “White Album” is, Sgt. Continue Reading
The 10 Best Oasis B-Sides
10. “Angel Child (Demo)” (B-side to “D’You Know What I Mean?”) The seven-minute long “D’You Know What I Mean?” was an odd choice for the first Continue Reading
Slint Release Alternate Mixes of "Breadcrumb Trail" and "Good Morning, Captain"
It will take a pair or two of solid elephant’s ears to hear the microscopic distinctions between Slint’s Spiderland, post-rock’s mighty Rosetta Stone, and the Continue Reading
Blanck Mass on Handling the Misery on the Way to a Blessing
“I did really feel like — is this a step too far?” laughs Benjamin John Power near the end of our Zoom call. Nestled among Continue Reading
Taylor Swift Releases Re-Recorded Version of ‘Love Story’: LISTEN
Taylor Swift's re-recording of "Love Story" has arrived just in time for Valentine's Day. On Friday (Feb. 12), the "Evermore" singer debuted "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" — Continue Reading
John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s Daughter Ella Is a 20-Year-Old TikToker Now (Yes, We Feel Old)
Kelly Preston and John Travolta's typically private daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, recently emerged in the spotlight—and we can't believe she's already 20 years old! (We're Continue Reading
Hoobastank Didn’t Even Have TikTok When Their 2004 Single Randomly Went Mega-Viral
Hoobastank are not a perfect band—and quite frankly, they don't give a damn. Twenty years since making their eponymous major label debut in 2001, the Continue Reading
Ten Years Ago Today Lady Gaga Released One of the Most Important Pop Songs of the 21st Century
Lady Gaga arguably made the transition from pop star to living legend on the night of Sept. 12, 2010 at the MTV Video Music Awards. Continue Reading
Taylor Swift Re-Recorded Her ‘Fearless’ Album and There’s a Hidden Message in the Announcement
Taylor Swift officially finished re-recording her Fearless album — and is even dropping a song, tonight! But what does the secret message hidden in her album Continue Reading
Dreams on Tape Shares Nostalgic Dream Pop Single “Tonight”
Following ‘Wide Awake’ and ‘Home’, Dreams on Tape returns with the third single off his forthcoming EP, ‘Nostalgia’, titled Tonight. Jake Benfant turns up the dance Continue Reading
Why Work Doesn't Work
Sarah Jaffe, the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt (2016), recently released a new book in her body of “class war” work. In Work Continue Reading
Nancy Sinatra's Outstanding Music Is Re-Released on 'Start Walkin' 1965-1976'
Nancy Sinatra consistently released outstanding records during 1965-1976, the period from which this double vinyl anthology was drawn, but critics consistently underrated her. Because of Continue Reading
The 10 Best Cream Songs
Here’s my take on the ten best Cream songs. This list is offered with one caveat: it’s mostly going to avoid the ones everyone knows, Continue Reading
'The Green Book'-Inspired 'A Parallel Road' and American Apartheid
Similarities between the apartheid system in South Africa (from 1948 to the early 1990s), and the “Jim Crow” era in America, (late 19th and early Continue Reading
Death By Unga Bunga Deliver Deft Hooks, Garage Rock Ecstasy on "Faster Than Light" (premiere)
Death By Unga Bunga’s Heavy Male Insecurity arrives 12 February via Jansen Records and reveals that the Norwegian outfit’s particular brand of melodic garage rock Continue Reading
Goat Girl's 'On All Fours' Is Amazingly Gorgeous
One of the delights of Goat Girl’s eponymous 2018 debut was the melodically laconic voice of guitarist and vocalist Lottie “Clottie Cream” Pendlebury. She could Continue Reading
Time-Transcending Paranoia in 'The Parallax View'
“The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a Continue Reading
Universal Energy: An Interview With Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk
Released late in 2020, Shadow of Fear stands as the first release of the legendary band Cabaret Voltaire wherein Richard H. Kirk serves as the Continue Reading